Show GIFFORD DEFENSE OF HIS POLICY The feud l I un unfortunate fortunate fortunato it I Is engendering much but we are ell the correctness of Mr 11 attitude altitude The animating principle to the forest service as administered by Gifford Is i found in Pin at the Irrigation con gross at which Is as follows It goes without saying that the law lawis lawis is supreme and must be obeyed Our civilIzation rests on obedience to lo law nut But the law Is not absolute It re Fe requires quires to be construed RIgid con of the law works and mU must t work In tho vast ast majority of cases for the tho benefit of the men who can hIre the best lawyers and who have haveth havethe th the sources or of influence In law making at their command Strict construction necessarily favors the great Interests as against the people and In the tho long Ions longrun run cnn can not do 10 otherwise Wise VIse Uon tion or of the law must consider what the law ought to accomplish h for the good The rhe groat oppressive trusts exist because of subservient law mal makers rs and adroit legal construe Here Is the central stronghold of the mone money power In the everlasting conflict of the few to grab and the tho many to lo keep or win the tho rights they wore horn with Le nl seldom help the The rhe people not the tho law should have the or of ever every doubt A coast paper a brief state mont of the conflict which d sp speech first act in hi office was to wIthdraw from reser reservation reservation an Immense body bod of made landa which p the water water power trust and anel the Uta timber r grabbers wanted to seize The BI aig thing about the no ac notion tion was that It was wag taken in secret as n far as a the genorn public know lenow while It may mar he be I that tho ho ex cx pensive and skillful agents and law Jors Of the el well weB what was doing I I This was I by from the forestry servIce t over whIch control or of the forests on oe the Indian reserva D Ballinger Is I saId ta lo bo be a stIck I j L T I loi strict construction of oC the tho In InI law lawI I I and ho he h holds that the Interior depart m nt has exclusive jurisdiction of the Indian reservations Thoro need bo be no about the fact that as aB far Car as the Interior department is concerned th the associated grabbers are arc In the saddle It Is Isa isa a condition that calls for Mr Tafts attention AS Pinchot expresses expresses it ft the time fr for lIE us to a agitate tate this ques que tion Is now before the separate circles ot of c spread Into the uniform unbroken nationwide cover coer coverIng Ing of oC a single gigantic trust In Inline line the nation wants the Roosevelt policies fulfilled In letter lellar anti In spirit |